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Thanks, man! I am glad I got it before Nobunga's or whatever Rayquaza is released so I can RNG that right away.

Oh man, i wish your events were full redis, its hard finding someone with a japanese game that can RNG :/ i assume there are a lot of people out there on japanese forums and whatnot, but without speaking japanese i cant seem to find a reliable source for japanese events

So it seems that everybody is getting into 4th Gen RNG at the moment. I've been reading everyone's posts and looking at all the guides etc and I have a few questions.
1. Do you have to RNG your ID/SID combo to be able to get shiny Pokemon? Can you not send a Pokemon to Pokecheck to find your SID like B/W? ( Reason I ask on this both my HG/SS have the Lati@s events waiting in the middle of the street to be battled and I was hoping to RNG them Shiny with a good IV spread)
2. I see it's all delay based so I assume just like Entralink RNG. I've only done one Entralink Arceus so far and found it really really hard. Are the delays just as hard to hit?
3. I've noticed most people saying all the spreads etc are preset but how do you change Nature when RNG on Gen 4?

Once I've got a firm grasp on everything I'll be giving it a go and will probably be back with many more questions
For the time being I'm just working through Gen 5 breeding competitive teams and picking up wondercards.

It really took that long? I got my shiny Japanese Tornadus within a few hours. xD

Originally Posted by MSK

1. Do you have to RNG your ID/SID combo to be able to get shiny Pokemon? Can you not send a Pokemon to Pokecheck to find your SID like B/W? ( Reason I ask on this both my HG/SS have the Lati@s events waiting in the middle of the street to be battled and I was hoping to RNG them Shiny with a good IV spread)

Yes, you can find your ID/SID through Pokécheck, but to get shiny penta-flawless, hex-flawless or Hidden Power spreads, you'll need to ID/SID abuse.

2. I see it's all delay based so I assume just like Entralink RNG. I've only done one Entralink Arceus so far and found it really really hard. Are the delays just as hard to hit?

It is difficult at first, but not as hard as Entralink. With Entralink RNG, you can hit both odd and even delays at the same time, meaning you have to be as precise as 1/60 of a second. This is untrue for Gen IV abuse, in which you can only hit odd or even delays at any one time, effectively causing the needed precision to be only 1/30, which isn't as hard as it appears. With practice, you'll be able to hit delays on your first attempt.

3. I've noticed most people saying all the spreads etc are preset but how do you change Nature when RNG on Gen 4?

Natures and IVs are intertwined with Gen IV RNG. It's not like Gen V (hitting a seed, then changing the PIDRNG). Instead, you hit a delay, then change the IVs and PID at the same time. This is why there are preset spreads available, as they also don't change between games.

I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong so I quit for a while. When Pandora's box finds the ID/SID combo I want it's delay 6072 and in Seed to Time it stays 6072, when I copy the seed into the Simple Seed to ID/SID calculator, the delay jumps up to 6084, which one do I hit? For this, does it matter what I use as my target seconds or do I need to use 0 like Pandora's Box says?

[21:33] <@Agonist> KAPHOTICS HAS SUCH A SULTRY VOICE

[18:18] <&Kaphotics> got >100k views on youtube in like a week
[18:18] <&Kaphotics> shame I didnt monetize that
[18:18] <&Kaphotics> like $300 gone

Yeah, I abused my TID for a HP Rock seed, although I didn't really need to. At any rate, I've found maybe 1500 frame 1 shiny seeds for this current save, so I really don't have a hard time finding useable seeds.

Caught all these last night while my Internet was out. They're all shiny, in case you can't tell with the Sawsbuck. Now that the Internet is back, I'll go do the recent wondercards.

You're Agonist from Pokecheck? I didn't know that. lol

Anyway, I just RNG'd my first Gen 4 Pokemon ever, a Jolly Scyther w/ Technician. Now I need to teach it Bug Bite and Tailwind, then transfer it. I'm excited that I finally am getting the hang of Delays and stuff. Perhaps I'll start learning about Entralink abuse soon, since that also uses Delays.

It's noob question time. Basically I RNG no problem with my DSlite/JP black. The issue is I want to RNG the wonder cards sitting on my EN white I play on my DSI. Just want to double check if it's like switching DS's with 4th gen where the wifi stuff is unchanged as long as I don't touch wifi trying my white on my DSlite. The time based events are irrelevent. Just worried about the gamesync ID, especially with the tournament on GBU coming up soon.

Really don't wanna have to try RNGing without the DSlites clock, that thing spoiled me.